Example sentences of "think [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alice returned to the second coat and her work of balancing on the trestles , and thought for the first time : I 'm silly . |
| 2 | He thought of her , and thought at the same time of Oxford ; and remembered , with sudden guilt , the letter from his mother , which he had not yet read . |
| 3 | Just like a shark , she thought for the second time that night , and the image did n't entirely displease her . |
| 4 | Damn Jake ! she thought for the hundred-millionth time . |
| 5 | ‘ How lovely she is , ’ he thought for the thousandth time , as he looked at her fondly . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're so lucky ! ’ she thought for the umpteenth time . |
| 7 | When Anne left them she thought of the first time she had stood on that corner saying goodnight to John . |
| 8 | He thought of the last time he 'd seen Dad . |
| 9 | ‘ No , really — think about the last time you went a day without wearing make-up and I bet it would be a frighteningly long time ago . ’ |
| 10 | I think about the same time as Walter for the war was declared when we were down there on the third of September . |
| 11 | But think of the last time you had a meal out and the service you encountered . |
| 12 | And I think at the present time , all of us on the right are more concerned about getting the economy right and cutting government expenditure that carrying on with er schemes of a privatization that might or might not succeed . |
| 13 | Certainly the request of staff then could turn into of the panel erm but but I think at the same time if people want to look at the structure so that they have a complete view of the structural organisation |
| 14 | but you hate to think at the same time what happened how they were burning you hate to think of |
| 15 | He was talking but could not think at the same time . |
| 16 | Sometimes he could not sleep at night for thinking about the one time it had happened . |
| 17 | He obstinately remained there even when his anger had subsided , and read morning and evening prayers from a little shilling book he had with him , thinking at the same time ‘ with inward & gloomy satisfaction ’ how miserable his mother must be . |
| 18 | Thereafter the firm might carefully choose one or two systems and do a thorough conversion job , probably thinking at the same time ‘ there must be another way . ’ |
| 19 | Thereafter the firm might carefully choose one or two platforms and do a thorough porting job , probably thinking at the same time ‘ there must be another way . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Have you found the number ? ’ he bawled to the child in the middle of a difficult run , thinking at the same time that the business of Henry 's going to the analyst for him was actually doing the opposite of freeing his friend . |